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No. 322,625. I Patented July 21, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT -OEEicE,

GEORGE E. ME

ASSIGNORS TO MENEELY HARD SPECIFICATIO NEELY, OF ALBANY, AND JOHN GIBBONS, OF \VEST TROY,

YVARE COMPANY, OF \VEST TROY, N. Y.

CAR-AXLE OILE R.

Application filed January 16, 1885.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

* Be it known that we, GEORGE E. MENEELY, of the city of Albany, county of Albany and State of New York, and JOHN GIBBONS, of the village of Test Troy, county and State aforesaid, have jointly invented a new and useful Improvement in Car Axle Oilers,

of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in car-axle being to of such oilers, the object of ourimprovernents increase the efficiency and usefulness devices, and our invention more parthe axle Our invention consists, as will be more fully detailed -j ournal.

in connection with its illustration, in

the combination,with a wick-holder of a caraxle oiler that is adapted to receive and contain a wick or waste, of a latch arranged on one side of said holder, said latch having a pivoted end from which it may be swung out to insert a wick or mass of waste, and the said latch f0 rced in to grasp and hold the wick means to secure said latch while thus closed in upon the waste or Wick.

Accompanying this specification, to form a part ofit, there are two plates of drawings containing four figures illustrating our invention, with the same designation of parts by letterreference used in all of them.

Of these illustrations, Figure 1 shows a perspective of a caraxle oiler made with a frame in two parts that are hinged together at the front, having an intermediate spring, the recoil force of which,

0 tends to spread the parts of the frame from where hinged, the upper part of the frame containi applied tical sec 5 tion, taken on the line 00 x of Fig. 1.

ng a wick-holder with our invention thereto. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertion of the spring and hinged connec- Fig. 3

tion tak en on the line so no of Fig. 3.

N forming part of Letters Patent No. 322,625, dated July 21, 1885.

(No model.)

The several parts of our invention are designated by letter-reference, and the functions of the parts are described as follows:

The letter F indicates the upper part of the frame and F the lower part, said parts at the front end being hinged as indicated at H.

The letter S designates a spring placed between the two parts F and F of the frame, near their hinged connection at the front of the device, so that the two parts F and F are pressed together on their hinged connection H against the recoil force of the spring S.

The letter M indicates a wick-holder,which at p p is pivoted to the upper part of the frame F by trunnions, and the letters T indicate teeth on one of the inner sides of the wick-holder.

The letter L indicates a latch, that at one Side of the wick-holder is pivoted thereto, as shown at m, and so that it may be swung out from the holder, as indicated at Fig. 1, and returned inwardly to a position indicated by the dotted line (1 of that figure.

The letter N indicates a handle on the end of the latch; and J, a stop or catch which,when

the latch is swung in, passes under the side 0 t of the holder to keep the latch in place.

The letters t indicate teeth on the latch, which are arranged thereon to enable it to better hold the wick or waste in place within the holder.

The latch and combined parts are operated as follows: The latch having been moved outwardly, as shown at Fig. 1, a mass of wick or waste is passed within the holder, so as to project therefrom into the oil or lubricant in the journal-box, when the latch is then moved in on its pivoted connection, and the stop J is passed under the side 0 of the holder with the latch in the position shown by the dotted line d of Fig. 1.

By the construction and arrangement of the parts thus described the wick form material or waste is easily inserted within the holder, and when inserted it is securely held there by the latch.

The letter A designates the car-axle; D, the

journal-box; I, the journal-box cover; 0, the axle-collar; E, the pedestal-jaw; K, the journal-bearing key; "W, the waste or wick, and O the oil or lubricant.

The hinged two-part frame shown is the Having thus fully described our invention, same as that illustrated and d cribed in an what we cla' osecure by Letters In a car-axle oiler having a wick or waste 6, 1884, and to which our invention is shown holder that is constructed to contain wick or as applied, although it may be applied to any I form of car-axle oiler havlng a wick-holder side of said holder, which latch is constructed to be moved out from and inwardly to the side of said holder where adjacent, substantially in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.

Signed at Troy, New York, December 23, moved inwardly to grasp the same and to I 1884, and in the presence of the two witnesses keep it securely within thelatter, our inven- I whose names were by them hereto written. tion may be variously modified as to shape or attachment without departing from the mechanical principle of its action, provided, however, the parts perform relatively the same function in substantially the same manlatch which we illustrate and describe is to utilize the Witnesses STANLEY M. HOLDEN,

rer. CHARLES S. BRINTNALL. 

